Public bucket

[Eliesi]

Hello,

I have a question about Google Cloud Storage.

A company wants to share some data with us. They want to upload the data in a cloud storage and then we download them.

My questions are:

1- Download the whole bucket by URL:
Is it possible that the company upload many files and folders to a bucket, then make the bucket public, and then send it URL to us, so we can download the whole bucket. I mean the whole bucket not objects inside the bucket.

2- To download a public bucket with URL, do I need to have a Google Cloud account or just having a Gmail is enough?

3- With a URL for a public bucket, is it possible to download the whole bucket in one download action not object by object?

Thanks.

[gsuceveanu]

Hello, 

To reply to your questions in order: 

1) Setting the bucket as public is possible, but not recommended. You should use rather the "Vendor drop box" scenario, which appears to cover exactly your sharing needs. 
2) You'll need to create a Cloud SQL user, so, in other words, a Google account, which may be associated with a gmail address, if so desired. Related details are to be found on the "Setting Up Access Control" page. 

3) It's possible to download the whole bucket, not by means of a link to the bucket, but by installing Cloud SDK locally and running a command analogous to: "https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/access-control#user_account". There are various related instructions on the Web, for instance on the How to download an entire bucket in GCP? page.